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      "tagline": "The programmatic sponsorship marketplace indexing the independent web.",
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        "building": "Okafufu is a programmatic sponsorship marketplace for the independent web—newsletters, podcasts, and creators—pairing an open catalog with API-verified audience data and instant booking. The aim is to make buying attention as simple as buying a physical product.",
        "whyNow": "Sponsorship across independent channels is still run on manual outreach and bloated agency contracts, while demand is shifting towards agentic workflows and automated bidding. A machine-readable index of attention is the missing piece.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 out of Tallinn, the company set out to index what it calls the unmapped web of attention—the long tail of independent channels that programmatic infrastructure has largely skipped.",
        "whyThisTeam": "Okafufu is led by founder Maciej A. Czyzewski, building at the intersection of AI, big data, and deep learning—the toolkit you'd want for verifying audiences and powering high-volume automated bidding."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and early—the test is whether independent publishers list their inventory and buyers trust the API-verified data enough to bid against it.",
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        "hook": "Buying a newsletter sponsorship should be as simple as buying a product. It isn't—yet.",
        "post": "Buying attention on the independent web is still stuck in manual outreach and bloated agency contracts. 📨\n\nOkafufu, just founded out of Tallinn, is building a programmatic sponsorship marketplace to index the unmapped web of attention—newsletters, podcasts, and creators.\n\nThe pitch: an open catalog, API-verified audience data, and instant booking. Independent channels list and monetise; media buyers manage campaigns through a visual terminal or plug straight into the API for agentic, high-volume bidding.\n\nIt's pre-funding and early, led by founder Maciej A. Czyzewski. The hard part won't be the tech—it'll be getting publishers to list inventory and buyers to trust the data enough to bid.\n\nIf they index the long tail nobody else maps, that's a category worth watching.\n\n#adtech #programmatic #creatoreconomy"
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      "name": "Reta QR Ltd",
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      "tagline": "QR-based video support for product self-assembly.",
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        "building": "Reta QR is building a SaaS platform that turns the QR code on product packaging into a self-service support hub — scan it to reach step-by-step video guides, digital manuals and an AI Q&A tool called \"Genie\", with auto-translation for multilingual customers.",
        "whyNow": "Flat-pack frustration and the cost of human support lines aren't going away, and digitising manuals also trims the paper and carbon that come with every printed instruction sheet.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 and registered in England and Wales, the company is being built out of the Akcela Incubator in Norwich, betting that the humble QR code is an under-used support channel sitting on millions of boxes.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The founding team is running lean inside an incubator programme; the company says its focus is a custom QR generator, video hosting and a content portal that lets clients own their own support content."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and very early — the question is whether brands will pay a subscription for QR support versus rolling their own, and how much traction Genie and the cross-sell features can show.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "The QR code on your flat-pack furniture could replace the support hotline. 📦",
        "post": "The QR code on your flat-pack furniture could replace the support hotline. 📦\n\nReta QR, founded in 2026 and building out of the Akcela Incubator in Norwich, is turning that little square on product packaging into a full self-service support channel.\n\nScan it and you get step-by-step video guides, digital manuals, and an AI Q&A tool the company calls \"Genie\" — plus auto-translation for multilingual customers and built-in cross-sell.\n\nThe pitch is simple: cut support costs, lift customer satisfaction, and ditch the paper manual (and its carbon) in the process.\n\nIt's pre-funding and early, so the real test is whether brands pay a subscription rather than build their own. But there's logic to it — those QR codes are already printed on millions of boxes.\n\nOne to watch. 👀\n\n#startups #saas #customersupport"
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      "tagline": "AI-powered decision platform structuring team knowledge.",
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        "building": "SynTopic is building a decision-making platform that pulls scattered project knowledge — meeting notes, specs, chat threads — into structured units called \"Topics\", giving teams a searchable, coherent shared memory. An AI layer then maps knowledge relationships as a graph, traces decision history, detects the impact of changes, and flags potential blind spots.",
        "whyNow": "Knowledge fragmentation has worsened as teams sprawl across more tools, and context routinely evaporates during handoffs or when new members join. With AI now capable of structuring and reasoning over messy internal data, automating that consolidation is finally tractable.",
        "backstory": "Founded by Kazushi Adachi and based in Minato City, Tokyo, SynTopic is taking on the familiar pain of critical decisions and their reasoning getting lost across disconnected tools. Specifics on the founder's background aren't disclosed yet.",
        "whyThisTeam": "It's early days and the founding team's track record isn't public, but the product thesis is sharply scoped: integrate with existing tools, structure the knowledge automatically, and make decision history traceable rather than tribal."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and running a waitlist — worth watching whether SynTopic can prove its AI structuring actually beats a well-kept wiki in real team workflows.",
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        "hook": "Your team's best decisions are buried in chat threads nobody can find again.",
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      "tagline": "Custom-built systems for scaling business operations.",
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        "building": "Bscale Labs is a consultant-led tech firm that builds custom digital systems — what it calls 'digital backbones' — for growing organisations. The work spans operational mapping, ERP and CRM architecture, sector-specific platforms like property management, workflow automation and executive dashboards, all delivered as unified, web-based, scalable systems.",
        "whyNow": "Plenty of scaling businesses get stuck in the 'messy middle': manual processes, murky reporting and bottlenecks that off-the-shelf, feature-heavy software doesn't fix. Bscale Labs is betting that bespoke systems built around real workflows beat generic tools at this awkward stage.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 by Lesmon Saluta, the company is built around a clear thesis: businesses don't need more features, they need their specific operational bottlenecks resolved. Further founder background isn't disclosed.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The founding team positions itself as consultant-led, pairing strategic diagnosis with technical execution rather than just shipping software. The company reports client outcomes including a threefold average lift in leads and a 40% cut in time spent on operations."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and newly founded — the consulting-plus-build model is credible but lives or dies on repeatable delivery, so watch whether Bscale can productise its approach beyond bespoke one-offs.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Most scaling firms don't need more software — they need someone to fix the mess underneath it.",
        "post": "Most scaling firms don't need more software. They need someone to untangle the mess underneath it. 🛠️\n\nBscale Labs, founded in 2026 by Lesmon Saluta, is taking on the 'messy middle' of growth — the stage where manual processes, unclear reporting and operational bottlenecks quietly cap a company's ceiling.\n\nInstead of feature-heavy generic tools, the consultant-led firm builds custom 'digital backbones': operational mapping, ERP and CRM architecture, workflow automation and executive dashboards, all unified and web-based.\n\nThe company reports a threefold average increase in leads and a 40% reduction in operational time for clients.\n\nIt's early and pre-funding — but the contrarian bet is sound: structure beats software when you're stuck between scrappy and scaled. Worth watching whether the bespoke approach can be made repeatable.\n\n#enterprisesoftware #justfounded #businessops"
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      "tagline": "Sales training platform using AI to deliver scenario-based roleplay, live feedback and skill development for sales teams and individuals.",
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        "building": "London-based Infinite Arc AI is building VendAce, an AI sales-training platform that turns scenario-based roleplay, live feedback and tailored courses into a structured ramp programme for SDRs and individual reps. Managers feed in their product technicalities, ICPs, sales methodologies and common objections, and the platform generates a bespoke curriculum with individually engineered roleplays.",
        "whyNow": "Sales teams carry the cost of slow-ramping, under-trained reps, and generative AI now makes it possible to customise language models around a company's own product and objections rather than generic playbooks. That shifts training from static decks to live, on-demand practice.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 by Mahmudur Rahman and Nathan Salter Perez, the company is taking aim at a long-standing problem: the overhead of untrained reps and the time it takes to master complex value propositions.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The two-person founding team is building learning-first, with the platform engineered to track deep performance analytics and let reps move between distinct product lines — a sign they understand the operational detail of how sales orgs actually scale."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and freshly founded, so the proof will be in whether the customised roleplays measurably cut ramp times — worth watching as it builds.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Most sales onboarding is decks and shadowing. This London startup wants reps practising live instead.",
        "post": "Most sales onboarding is still slide decks and shadowing the best rep on the floor. 🎯\n\nLondon's Infinite Arc AI, founded in 2026 by Mahmudur Rahman and Nathan Salter Perez, is taking a different route with VendAce — an AI sales-training platform built around scenario-based roleplay and live feedback.\n\nManagers plug in their own product technicalities, ICPs, sales methodologies and common objections. VendAce then generates a full curriculum of individually engineered roleplays and targeted courses, tracking deep performance analytics as reps go.\n\nThe pitch: faster SDR ramp times, less overhead from untrained reps, and the ability to move people between product lines without starting from scratch.\n\nIt's early and pre-funding, so the test is whether those custom roleplays actually shorten ramp. Worth watching.\n\n#salestech #aitraining #justfounded"
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      "name": "Sketchbug",
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      "website": "http://sketchbug.art",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/sketchbug",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
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      "tagline": "Online sketching application for ideas and diagrams.",
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        "building": "Milwaukee-based Sketchbug is a browser-based sketching app for ideas, doodles and diagrams — no install, just a clean canvas with pens, pencils, shapes, layers and full undo/redo. Its 'draw it, keep it' approach saves every sketch to a cloud library so you can pick up work on any device.",
        "whyNow": "Most drawing tools either over-engineer for professional artists or trap your work behind a download; Sketchbug bets on a lightweight, browser-first sketchbook for wireframing and visual note-taking. With remote and cross-device working now the norm, a tool that syncs instantly and runs anywhere has an obvious lane.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 by Hussain Mehdi, the company is built around a simple premise: a straightforward sketching tool without the complexity of heavyweight art software. Beyond that, the founding team's pedigree isn't disclosed.",
        "whyThisTeam": "It's early days and a small founding effort, so the proof will be in execution rather than CV. What's notable is a clear product point of view — freemium access, a 'Live Sketch' real-time collaboration feature, and a 'Brush Hub' community marketplace for custom brushes."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and entering a crowded creative-tools market — watch whether the Brush Hub community and Live Sketch collaboration give it a defensible edge over generic browser whiteboards.",
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        "hook": "A browser sketchbook that bets simplicity beats feature-bloat.",
        "post": "Most drawing apps make you choose: download a heavyweight art suite, or settle for a generic whiteboard. ✏️ Sketchbug, just founded in Milwaukee by Hussain Mehdi, is taking a different line.\n\nIt's a browser-based sketching app for ideas, doodles and diagrams — no install, a clean canvas, and a 'draw it, keep it' philosophy that syncs every sketch to a cloud library across your devices.\n\nThe interesting bits: 'Live Sketch' for real-time collaboration, and a 'Brush Hub' community marketplace where artists share and save custom brushes. It runs on a freemium model, with Pro unlocking unlimited storage and full tools.\n\nIt's pre-funding and early, so execution is everything. But in a market split between bloat and blandness, a fast, simple, cross-device sketchbook with a community angle is worth watching.\n\n#creativetools #saas #justfounded"
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      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
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      "location": "San Francisco, United States",
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      "tagline": "Expert-verified reasoning data for advanced AI models.",
      "story": {
        "building": "ReasonCore AI is a marketplace that turns companies' dormant proprietary data into expert-verified, model-ready training datasets for reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning pipelines. The focus is on hard domains — spatial, scientific, financial and coding reasoning — complete with chain-of-thought traces, step-by-step solutions, adaptive benchmarks and adversarial stress tests.",
        "whyNow": "Frontier labs have largely exhausted easy internet-scale data and now compete on high-signal, specialised reasoning examples that simply aren't scrapeable. ReasonCore is betting the next gains come from verified domain data, not more of the same web text.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 by Anshuman, Satish and Geoff, the company is built around a simple mismatch: businesses sit on valuable domain data they can't monetise, while AI developers are starved of exactly that kind of specialised, verified input.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The founding team combines deep technical research — two PhDs spanning chemical engineering and computational modelling — with go-to-market experience, and shared time at firms including Tiger Analytics, Aera Technology and Turing."
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      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and early, so the question is execution: can a three-person team build trust on both the data-supply and frontier-lab demand sides at once?",
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        "hook": "Frontier AI has run out of easy data. The hard stuff is locked inside companies that don't know it's worth anything.",
        "post": "Frontier AI labs have a problem: they've largely mined the easy internet-scale data, and the next gains live in specialised reasoning that simply isn't scrapeable. 🧩\n\nReasonCore AI, founded in 2026 in San Francisco, is building a marketplace for exactly that. It connects businesses sitting on dormant proprietary data with AI labs and enterprises, then transforms that raw data into expert-verified, model-ready datasets for RL and SFT pipelines — with chain-of-thought traces, step-by-step solutions, adaptive benchmarks and adversarial stress tests.\n\nThe focus is on the hard domains: spatial, scientific, financial and coding reasoning. A multi-layer verification process mixes expert review with automated checks.\n\nStill pre-funding and early, but the thesis is sharp: verified domain data, not more web text, is where the next model gains come from. Worth watching.\n\n#aitrainingdata #reinforcementlearning #datamonetisation"
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      "name": "Niavicta",
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      "story": {
        "building": "Niavicta is building nianav OS, an operating system for scale-ups in regulated industries like medtech that weaves processes, records, roles, decisions and daily work into a single queryable fabric. It treats AI as part of the operating layer — every AI step has a named human owner, a defined scope and a built-in audit trail.",
        "whyNow": "Regulated scale-ups run on fragmented stacks of CRMs, ERPs, PLMs and eQMS, and the company argues that scattered structure is incompatible with AI agents that need a single, readable source of truth. As AI moves into operational work, compliance-by-design and clear accountability stop being optional.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 by Jasmine Beukema, the Dutch company set out to give companies in medtech and adjacent fields the documented processes, clear roles and governance needed to grow without breaking compliance. The founder's specific background isn't detailed here, so we'll take the thesis on its own merits.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The founding team is targeting a genuinely hard, unglamorous problem — auditable operations for life sciences — rather than chasing easier consumer AI wins. Its 'Project Zero' AI-led setup, which the company says delivers an audit-ready system in days rather than months, signals an opinionated bet on speed."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Jasmine Beukema",
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      ],
      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and just founded — the audit-trail-by-design framing is the right one for RegTech, so watch whether 'days not months' setup holds up with real medtech customers.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Most AI tools are bolted onto compliance. This one builds the audit trail in.",
        "post": "Most AI tools get bolted onto regulated workflows as an afterthought. Niavicta is starting from the opposite end. 🧬\n\nThe just-founded Dutch company is building nianav OS — an operating system for scale-ups in medtech and adjacent regulated fields. Instead of scattering business information across disconnected CRMs, ERPs, PLMs and eQMS, it weaves processes, records, roles and decisions into one queryable fabric that's legible to people and AI agents alike.\n\nThe contrarian bit: AI lives in the operating layer, not on top of it. Every AI step gets a named human owner, a defined scope and a built-in audit trail. Its 'Project Zero' setup aims for an audit-ready system in days, not months.\n\nIt's pre-funding and early — but compliance-by-design is exactly the right starting point for RegTech.\n\n#regtech #medtech #ainative"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Root Two Labs UG (haftungsbeschränkt)",
      "slug": "root-two-labs-ug-haftungsbeschr-nkt",
      "id": 6589451,
      "website": "http://roottwolabs.de",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/root_two_labs_ug_haftungsbeschr_nkt",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
        "Energy"
      ],
      "heat": "under-the-radar",
      "founded": "2026",
      "location": "Ahrensburg, Germany",
      "region": "Europe",
      "stage": "Pre-funding",
      "raised": "",
      "leadInvestors": [],
      "screenshot": "https://image.thum.io/get/width/800/crop/420/noanimate/http://roottwolabs.de",
      "logo": "https://storage.googleapis.com/dealroom-images-production/2026/06/07/6ff51bcadf8026f5babce5d61f2ce6fe.png",
      "tagline": "AI-native software development for production-ready applications.",
      "story": {
        "building": "Root Two Labs is a German software studio that turns prototypes into production-ready web apps and SaaS, with a focus on e-commerce platforms built on Spryker, system integrations across ERP, CRM and PIM, and API-led data pipelines. Alongside client work, the company says it's developing its own B2C app and a SaaS platform for a niche market.",
        "whyNow": "Plenty of teams can ship a demo; far fewer can harden it into something that survives real traffic and legacy migrations. Root Two Labs is betting that the gap between prototype and production is where most digitalisation projects actually stall.",
        "backstory": "Officially registered in June 2026 in Ahrensburg with €1,500 in share capital, the firm was co-founded by Maxim Klenski and Evgeny Nekhamkin, who both serve as managing directors with sole representation authority.",
        "whyThisTeam": "Klenski brings 19 years in IT consulting, including aviation-industry work building microservice platforms and leading technical transformations, while Nekhamkin adds 18 years in web development and e-commerce, with Spryker migrations off legacy systems and architecture for high-volume online stores."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Maxim Klenski",
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          "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/f/maxim_klenski"
        },
        {
          "name": "Evgeny Nekhamkin",
          "role": "",
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            "Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg"
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          "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/f/evgeny_nekhamkin"
        }
      ],
      "editorNote": "An experienced two-person services shop that's pre-funding and bootstrapping its own products — worth watching to see whether the proprietary B2C app and niche SaaS graduate from side-projects into the main act.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Anyone can build a prototype. Shipping it to production is the hard part — and that's the whole pitch.",
        "post": "Anyone can ship a demo. Keeping it alive under real traffic and legacy migrations is where most digitalisation projects quietly die. 🛠️\n\nRoot Two Labs, registered in Ahrensburg in June 2026, is a software studio built around that gap — taking prototypes to production-ready web apps and SaaS. The work: Spryker-based e-commerce, ERP/CRM/PIM integrations, API-led data pipelines, and a stack (PHP, Java, TypeScript, cloud) picked per problem rather than per fashion.\n\nCo-founders Maxim Klenski (19 years in IT consulting, incl. aviation microservice platforms) and Evgeny Nekhamkin (18 years in web dev and e-commerce, incl. Spryker migrations) are also bootstrapping their own B2C app and a niche SaaS.\n\nIt's early and pre-funding — but production-hardening is a real, unglamorous problem, and these two have shipped it before.\n\n#saas #ecommerce #justfounded"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "RHAI Systems",
      "slug": "rhai-systems",
      "id": 6589445,
      "website": "http://rhaisystems.com",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/rhai_systems",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
        "Robotics",
        "Semiconductors"
      ],
      "heat": "under-the-radar",
      "founded": "2026",
      "location": "Granada, Spain",
      "region": "Europe",
      "stage": "Pre-funding",
      "raised": "",
      "leadInvestors": [],
      "screenshot": "https://image.thum.io/get/width/800/crop/420/noanimate/http://rhaisystems.com",
      "logo": "https://storage.googleapis.com/dealroom-images-production/2026/06/07/19c459e0e1aa310f122e4d4ed740afe7.png",
      "tagline": "Deterministic AI hardware for mission-critical systems.",
      "story": {
        "building": "RHAI Systems is building deterministic AI hardware for mission-critical, resource-constrained environments — think space platforms, drones and advanced embedded systems where power, memory and timing are hard limits. Its proprietary architectures aim to deliver high-performance AI inference with predictable execution, efficient memory use and strong on-chip data locality.",
        "whyNow": "Edge AI is moving into places where a missed deadline isn't a glitch but a mission failure, yet most AI silicon is optimised for raw throughput, not guaranteed timing. RHAI is betting that determinism — consistent execution within strict time constraints — becomes the non-negotiable requirement for aerospace and robotics.",
        "backstory": "Founded in 2026 in Granada, the company is led by Juan P. Cobos Carrascosa, PhD; beyond that the founder's specific track record isn't detailed here, so we'd treat the technical pedigree as one to verify.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The founding team is starting with a clear, narrow thesis — predictable AI inference for constrained, safety-critical systems — and a pragmatic go-to-market: licensable hardware IP, FPGA prototypes for validation, and co-development with industrial partners."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Juan P. Cobos Carrascosa, PhD",
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            "Axesor Marketing Intelligence"
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        }
      ],
      "editorNote": "Pre-funding and very early, so the proof will be in working FPGA prototypes and a first named co-development partner — watch for both.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Most AI chips chase raw speed. This one is chasing the clock.",
        "post": "Most AI chips chase raw speed. RHAI Systems is chasing the clock. 🛰️\n\nFounded in 2026 in Granada, the company is building deterministic AI hardware for mission-critical, resource-constrained systems — space platforms, drones and advanced embedded kit where power, memory and timing are unforgiving.\n\nThe pitch: AI inference with predictable execution, not just high throughput. In aerospace and robotics, a missed deadline isn't a glitch, it's a mission failure. The team's go-to-market is pragmatic too — licensable hardware IP, FPGA prototypes for early validation, and co-development with industrial partners.\n\nIt's pre-funding and genuinely early, led by Juan P. Cobos Carrascosa, PhD. The proof will be in working prototypes and a first named partner. But the thesis is sharp: as edge AI moves into safety-critical places, determinism stops being a nice-to-have.\n\n#edgeai #semiconductors #deeptech"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Chronic Trace, Inc.",
      "slug": "chronic-trace-inc",
      "id": 6589210,
      "website": "http://chronictrace.com",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/chronic_trace_inc",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
        "Health"
      ],
      "heat": "under-the-radar",
      "founded": "2026",
      "location": "Dover, United States",
      "region": "USA",
      "stage": "Pre-funding",
      "raised": "",
      "leadInvestors": [],
      "screenshot": "https://image.thum.io/get/width/800/crop/420/noanimate/http://chronictrace.com",
      "logo": "https://storage.googleapis.com/dealroom-images-production/2026/06/07/a022eef8a52f22afcad1a3fa427f6d8a.png",
      "tagline": "Mobile, objective neurological assessment for head injuries.",
      "story": {
        "building": "Chronic Trace is building a Software-as-a-Medical-Device platform that turns a short video from a standard mobile phone into objective brain-health indices. It guides coaches, medics or clinicians through postural balance, eye-tracking and cognitive-speed tasks, then scores them against a person's own baseline to support return-to-play and return-to-duty calls.",
        "whyNow": "Medicine still lacks an objective biomarker for brain health, leaning on self-reported symptoms or observer notes — a gap that bites hardest on sports sidelines, in ERs and in military training. A phone-based, manipulation-resistant index is a credible way to put real data where head injuries actually happen.",
        "backstory": "The company says it set out to provide what it calls \"the laboratory test for the brain\", targeting the gap between specialist offices and the places trauma occurs. It is led by its inventor, with Bryce M. Walker running revenue and operations.",
        "whyThisTeam": "Founded by Maya Rubio and led by its inventor, the team is already running field data collection with MMA fighters, plus soldiers and civilians in combat zones — and holds nine US patents pending on manipulation-resistant design."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Maya Rubio",
          "role": "",
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            "Penn State University"
          ],
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          "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/f/maya_rubio"
        }
      ],
      "editorNote": "Research-stage and pre-funding, with no advisory board yet named — the thing to watch is whether the field cohorts and pending patents convert into validated, regulator-ready evidence.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Can a 30-second phone video become \"the laboratory test for the brain\"?",
        "post": "Brain health is one of the last corners of medicine without an objective biomarker — decisions still hang on self-reported symptoms and observer notes. 🧠\n\nChronic Trace, founded in 2026 and based in Dover, is taking a different route: turn a short video from a standard mobile phone into objective brain-health indices. The platform walks coaches, medics or clinicians through postural balance, eye-tracking and cognitive-speed tasks, then tracks a composite score against each person's own baseline to support return-to-play and return-to-duty calls.\n\nIt's research-stage and pre-funding, positioned firmly as decision support, not diagnosis. But the team is already collecting field data with MMA fighters and with soldiers and civilians in combat zones, with nine US patents pending on manipulation-resistant design.\n\nWhy it matters: objective data where head injuries actually happen.\n\n#healthtech #neurotrauma #saamd"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Cardenly",
      "slug": "cardenly",
      "id": 6589186,
      "website": "http://cardenly.net",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/cardenly",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
        "Marketing"
      ],
      "heat": "under-the-radar",
      "founded": "2026",
      "location": "Orlando, United States",
      "region": "USA",
      "stage": "Pre-funding",
      "raised": "",
      "leadInvestors": [],
      "screenshot": "",
      "logo": "https://storage.googleapis.com/dealroom-images-production/2026/06/07/c799f5f92e46c3f408b3936086d9728c.png",
      "tagline": "Centralized digital business cards for enterprise teams.",
      "story": {
        "building": "Cardenly is building a platform for digital business cards aimed at enterprise teams, letting employees consolidate contact details, social profiles and multimedia into one customisable card shared via QR codes or optional NFC. For corporates, a centralised dashboard handles team management, brand consistency and analytics, with CRM integrations like HubSpot pulling the tool into sales and marketing workflows.",
        "whyNow": "Paper business cards remain stubbornly common despite being static, wasteful and impossible to update — and as networking moves to events, tradeshows and hybrid work, teams increasingly want contactless sharing that feeds straight into their CRM. Cardenly is betting the enterprise angle, not the individual card, is where the value sits.",
        "backstory": "The company traces its roots to work begun around 2021, with Mertcan Yaman — a software developer with prior entrepreneurial experience — cited as a co-founder and CEO behind the original product vision. The team frames the platform as a response to the limitations and environmental cost of traditional cards.",
        "whyThisTeam": "Cardenly lists Auber Alonso among its founders, alongside Yaman's developer and founder background that informed the build. With a pre-funding, building-stage company, the proof will be in execution rather than pedigree claims."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Auber Alonso",
          "role": "",
          "prevBackground": "",
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          "studied": [
            "Western Governors University"
          ],
          "foundedPrev": [],
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          "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/f/auber_alonso"
        }
      ],
      "editorNote": "A crowded digital-card market means the enterprise dashboard, brand controls and CRM integrations — not the card itself — are what to watch.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Paper business cards still won't die. Cardenly wants to bury them at the enterprise level.",
        "post": "Paper business cards still won't die — despite being static, wasteful and out of date the moment they're printed. 🪪\n\nCardenly, an Orlando-based startup, is taking the enterprise route: digital business cards shared via QR or optional NFC, managed from a centralised dashboard so organisations can keep brand consistency across every employee.\n\nThe interesting bit isn't the card. It's the layer around it — engagement analytics, lead capture forms, and CRM integrations like HubSpot that pull networking straight into sales and marketing workflows. The company runs a tiered model from a free plan up to Pro, Teams and Enterprise.\n\nIt's early and pre-funding, so execution is everything in a busy market. But the enterprise-first framing is the right contrarian bet — most rivals chase individuals.\n\nWhy it matters: networking is finally becoming measurable.\n\n#digitalbusinesscards #b2bsaas #justfounded"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "OTEQ Strategic Technologies",
      "slug": "oteq-strategic-technologies",
      "id": 6589011,
      "website": "http://oteqs.com",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/oteq_strategic_technologies",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
        "Enterprise Software"
      ],
      "heat": "under-the-radar",
      "founded": "2026",
      "location": "Istanbul, Türkiye",
      "region": "MENA",
      "stage": "Pre-funding",
      "raised": "",
      "leadInvestors": [],
      "screenshot": "https://image.thum.io/get/width/800/crop/420/noanimate/http://oteqs.com",
      "logo": "https://storage.googleapis.com/dealroom-images-production/2026/06/07/397a2857d0fd964341a710728e181b69.png",
      "tagline": "Strategic advisory for high-stakes technology and venture decisions.",
      "story": {
        "building": "OTEQ Strategic Technologies is a founder-led advisory firm offering confidential, senior-level counsel to boards, investors and executive teams making high-stakes calls where technology, capital risk and engineering complexity collide. Its focus spans deep-tech domains including quantum computing, AI, cybersecurity, unmanned systems, aerospace, digital infrastructure and telehealth.",
        "whyNow": "Capital is pouring into deep-tech and defence-adjacent sectors faster than most boards can build the technical judgement to evaluate it. OTEQ is betting that operator-grade, independent advice on complex systems is the missing layer between technology decisions and investment logic.",
        "backstory": "The firm was founded in 2026 by Öner Tekin, who the company says brings a background as a CEO in defence and advanced technology, plus prior roles as CTO and CIO at Vestel. That mix of C-level and large-scale programme experience shapes OTEQ's pitch: judgement grounded in having actually run the systems.",
        "whyThisTeam": "OTEQ's edge is its operator-level perspective — Tekin's stated history leading technology and engineering programmes at executive level — paired with a capital-aware view that ties technical risk to market dynamics. For high-consequence sectors, that combination of execution-aware and investment-aware judgement is rare."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Oner Tekin",
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            "Nortel Networks"
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          ],
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          "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/f/oner_tekin"
        }
      ],
      "editorNote": "A solo-founder advisory lives or dies on the founder's network and reputation; the thing to watch is whether OTEQ can scale senior judgement beyond one person without diluting it.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Most boards are writing deep-tech cheques they can't technically evaluate. One Istanbul firm is built for exactly that gap.",
        "post": "Capital is flooding into quantum, AI, unmanned systems and aerospace faster than most boards can build the judgement to evaluate it. 🛰️\n\nEnter OTEQ Strategic Technologies — a founder-led advisory firm, just founded in Istanbul and currently pre-funding, built for the high-stakes moments where technology, capital risk and engineering complexity converge.\n\nFounded by Öner Tekin, who the company says brings a background as a CEO in defence and advanced technology and former CTO/CIO roles at Vestel, OTEQ offers confidential, senior counsel to boards, investors, startups and public-sector teams.\n\nThe pitch is operator-level perspective, systems-level judgement and capital-aware context — independent advice from someone who's run the programmes, not just read the deck.\n\nWhy it matters: in mission-critical sectors, the gap between technical reality and investment logic is where the costly mistakes live.\n\n#deeptech #advisory #venturecapital"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Acervas",
      "slug": "acervas",
      "id": 6588146,
      "website": "http://acervas.com",
      "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/companies/acervas",
      "fundingStatus": "pre-funding",
      "sector": [
        "Enterprise Software"
      ],
      "heat": "under-the-radar",
      "founded": "2026",
      "location": "Auckland, New Zealand",
      "region": "Oceania",
      "stage": "Pre-funding",
      "raised": "",
      "leadInvestors": [],
      "screenshot": "",
      "logo": "https://storage.googleapis.com/dealroom-images-production/2026/06/07/2b7ffdb01c7d327ec1cd35e255c8e547.png",
      "tagline": "AI-powered knowledge platform for industrial maintenance.",
      "story": {
        "building": "Acervas is building an AI-powered knowledge platform for industrial maintenance that lets engineers log fixes via voice notes, photos or text, then transcribes and indexes them so any technician can instantly search proven, step-by-step solutions. The twist is a network effect: a fix logged for a specific machine fault at one plant becomes available to anyone running the same equipment elsewhere.",
        "whyNow": "Unplanned downtime is estimated to cost the world's largest 500 companies 11% of annual revenue, and the \"tribal knowledge\" that keeps machines running walks out the door every time a veteran engineer retires. Capturing that know-how before it's lost is the pitch.",
        "backstory": "The company is tackling the unwritten, undocumented operational knowledge that quietly disappears when experienced personnel leave, replacing frantic calls to colleagues and generic manuals with searchable, real-world fixes.",
        "whyThisTeam": "The founding team includes Gregor Jamieson, who brings extensive experience in commercial and business development — useful for the enterprise sales motion a freemium-to-network model demands."
      },
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Rhys Heaven-Smith",
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          ],
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          "dealroomUrl": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/f/rhys_heaven_smith"
        }
      ],
      "editorNote": "Founded in 2026 and pre-funding, Acervas is betting everything on the network flywheel — the real test is whether enough plants contribute fixes to make the paid global knowledge layer worth buying.",
      "social": {
        "hook": "Every time a veteran engineer retires, a factory loses decades of fixes. Acervas wants to capture them before they walk out the door.",
        "post": "Every time a veteran engineer retires, a factory loses decades of unwritten fixes — the kind that get a stalled machine running again at 3am. 🔧\n\nAcervas, just founded in Auckland, is building an AI-powered knowledge platform for industrial maintenance. Engineers log fixes by voice, photo or text; AI transcribes and indexes them so any technician can search proven, step-by-step solutions in seconds.\n\nThe clever bit: a fix logged for a specific fault at one plant becomes available to anyone running the same kit anywhere. The more plants contribute, the smarter the network. It's free for a single plant; the paid tier opens up the global knowledge base and fault-pattern insights.\n\nWith unplanned downtime estimated to cost the largest 500 companies 11% of revenue, capturing tribal knowledge before it leaves is overdue. Pre-funding and worth watching.\n\n#industrialmaintenance #enterprisesoftware #manufacturing"
      }
    }
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}